As you may have realized by now, building a voice-enabled application is a thrilling experience, however, it is not necessarily an easy task for non-developers, or even for developers. This is also true for the Amazon Developer console, as well as the Google Assistant / Home console. Today, those tools are not ready for non-developers and still require coding and programming on many different levels. To fill this gap, some startup companies, such as Storyline, PullString, and Jovo, provide simplified tools to build voice applications for Alexa. I would recommend referring to one of them if you are looking to build simple use cases that can be supported using a state machine (see more about the state-machine structure in previous chapters). Very few tools today provide a visual and simple interface for more complex use cases (my company, Conversation.one, included).
As voice UI and UX are just evolving, it only makes sense that those tools will change and evolve. I anticipate that...